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Events

By Place

Roman Empire

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Roman Empire

★ February 11 — Emperor Gordian III is killed by his Praetorian Prefect Philip the Arab after Phillip replaces Timesitheus and then declares himself co-emperor.

★ Philip the Arab becomes Emperor.

★ Rome loses Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Sassanides.

★ Aurelian defeats the Franks at Mainz.

★ Philip the Arab constucts the city of Shahba, in Syria, the province of his birth.

By Topic

Arts and Sciences

★ Plotinus founds his Neoplatonist school in Rome.

Births

★ Alexander of Constantinople, Patriarch of Constantinople (possible date)

Deaths

★ February 11 — Gordian III, Roman emperor

★ Martyr Heliconis of Thessalonica

★ Cao Xun

★ Zhang Cheng